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Justin Bieber’s Organ Donor Encouragement Causes Spike in Registrations

After a fan Tweeted Justin Bieber asking for his help, as a fellow Canadian, to save lives (like hers) by promoting organ donation, he...
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Rachel’s Legacy Inspires Other Kids to Give

Rachel Beckwith wanted to raise money for a clean-water charity by ask­ing for dona­tions instead of presents for her ninth birthday. Now, her death...
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Haitian Cancer Survivor Turns Life Around to Help Kids

After a deadly cancer diagnosis, he dedicated his life to helping hundreds of kids from Haiti’s slums. Five years ago, Patrice Millet learned he was...
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Seven Loyola Hospital Employees Donate Kidneys to Strangers

Loyola University Medical Center is a very giving place to work -- so much so that within the past year, seven female employees donated...
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Medical Miracle as Adopted Son Gets to Repay Mom With a Kidney

Facing 7 or 8 years on the organ donor waiting list, an ailing Massachusetts mom, having exhausted all possibilities for kidney matches with blood...
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Mother Meets Recipient of her Son’s Heart, Gains New Family (Video)

Last August, Renee Varela's 18-year-old son, Anthony, was killed by a drunk driver. His heart was transplanted into the chest of Eric Ford, a...
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Mom Gets 10 Unexpected Years to Watch Her Daughter Grow Up

Yesterday was a celebration for one family, an occasion they never believed would come. One of their own is alive and well 10 years...

Strangers Pay It Forward Today in Largest Kidney Swap, Saving 28 Lives

  The civilians behind the National Kidney Registry website have organized transplants for record numbers of kidney patients over the last three years. Today, the momentum...
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Out of Grief Sprouts Life-Saving Legacy for Girl After Her Organ Donations

You don’t have to be rich, famous or even an adult to leave a memorable legacy that can change lives. Just ask the mother...
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Pay It Forward Kidney Donations Give 14 Patients New Life

It started with an ordinary life-saving organ donation, but after the recipient's husband decided to 'pay it forward' with his own kidney donation, a...
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Billy and Matt Hahn at Center of Very Happy Family Reunion in NCAA Tournament

Few people understand what the past five years have been like for the family of West Virginia assistant coach Billy Hahn. His wife, Kathi,...
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Experiment Moves Past Stem Cells, Advancing Brain Treatment

In a "dramatic" breakthrough that has positive implications for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, researchers have transformed ordinary mouse skin cells directly into functioning nerve cells,...
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2009 a Record Year for Organ Donations in Ontario

Nearly 700 lives were saved last year thanks to a record number of organ donations. Organ donations rose 17 percent in 2009, two...
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3 Sisters who Found Dad a Kidney on Craigs List Find Organs for Others

Last year, our father was diagnosed with Kidney Disease. Unfortunately, my sisters and I were all incompatible to donate, so we dreamed up...
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Turning a Bad News Diagnosis Into Good

Even though the cancer has spread throughout Noah’s body, and he is on methadone and twice-a-day steroids to lower the pain, his courage and...
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Yankee Home Run Thanks to Young Girl’s Bracelet

Last Friday, after visiting a young girl in the hospital in need of a transplant, Yankees player, Brett Gardner, was given a Project Sunshine...

Encouraging Stem Cell Research Published

Researchers in America have reported encouraging results from a trial treating people with MS with stem cells derived from their bone marrow. The study, reported...
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Parents Strive to Save Others After Baby Gets Donor Match (Can You Help?)

After finding a bone marrow donor in New Hampshire that saved their baby Giovanni, the parents continue to boost donor numbers to save...
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Top Ten Innovations From 2008

Any list of the top achievements in science and energy is a list that glows with promise and hope. During the year 2008 we...
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With Bees Dying by the Billions, Teens Protect Pollinators

Millions of Monarchs will begin arriving in Mexico this week in an annual migration that includes thousands traveling through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and some...